Authenticated users not redirected correctly upon logout from Metalib

• Article Type: General
• Product: MetaLib
• Product Version: 4

Description:
The URL confirmed in the pds/conf_table/tab_service.university is not used to redirect authenticated users correctly (as in, the logout resolves to Metalib module page, like http://metalib.univesity.edu/V?func= quick-1 instead of the configured library home page: http://libraries.university.edu.

In the following example, the following scenario details are used:

Institute code = UNIVERSITY
Logout redirect configured for http://libraries.university.edu

Resolution:
The PDS file = pds/conf_table/tab_service.university service can include this service: [REDIRECT_LOGOUT]

If the URL confirmed in the [REDIRECT_LOGOUT] is not the page to which authenticated users browsers resolve upon logout, then check the following within the tab_service.university file:

Issue the command "cat -vte filename" to confirm any hidden characters and special characters like carriage returns (carriage returns are shown as "$"):

For example, on a server where the [REDIRECT_LOGOUT] was not working, the tab_service.university file confirmed the following in the last two stanzas of the tab_service file:

[INSTITUTE_DISPLAY]$
code = UNIVERSITY$
lang = ENG$
desc = University$
[END]$
$
[REDIRECT_LOGOUT]$
params = http://libraries.university.edu/$
[END]metalib-m4_2>>

When the carriage return was added to the last line (as shown below), the [REDIRECT_LOGOUT] URL was successfully used when authenticated users logged out of their Metalib session:

[INSTITUTE_DISPLAY]$
code = UNIVERSITY$
lang = ENG$
desc = University$
[END]$
$
[REDIRECT_LOGOUT]$
params = http://libraries.university.edu/$
[END]$
metalib-m4_2>>

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Please review SKB 16000 to confirm for assistance configuring Logout Redirection for MetaLib Guest Users - MetaLib Version 4. The relevant file being user interface specific within the file = insNN/www_v_eng/end-session